This week I am posting a much earlier shot from my film ‘The Lift’. In this shot the main character is leaving for work, or what ever she does. As you saw from one of the other later shots I posted she doesn’t make it to where she was going.
Something I haven’t really talked about yet, and I am always asked, is when will it be finished. I am looking to complete this film in early 2010, actually the end of January. I am attempting to submit this film to Annecy which is apparently celebrating its 50th anniversary. If you are interested I took some pictures when I was there in 2003 (Annecy Animation Festival Pictures).
Enjoy!
I am posting this new video on my blog a little late this time, a week late actually. I forgot to do this last week, though I did get it up on Youtube and Vimeo. This week I won’t be doing a video as its a holiday in the US.
Shot 51, what you see below is the shot immediately after last weeks, the girl gets pulled down the sewer drain and transported to another world.
Other than that I think I am pretty set on the new title of the film “The Lift”, as my sister Emma says “Once and Never Again” sounded lame. I think i agree.
I have recently setup 2 channels, one on Vimeo and another on Youtube which I will update every Tuesday with new shots from my film.
YouTube Kohrtoons Studio Channel
Vimeo Kohrtoons Studio Channel
This week I created an almost 7 minute tutorial showing my process of developing a shot from the animatic to the final video. I demonstrated how I use Flash to create the animation and color the frames, Blender to generate the 3D scenes and After Effects for composting.
On another note the film is currently called “Once and Never Again” though I am considering changing it to “The Lift”. The premise of the film is an elevator experience gone wrong, a cautionary tale about holding the elevator door for people (though you wouldn’t know it from this shot :P)
So thus ends another year. Okay so its a little short of New Years. That said I have finished my annual Reel. The new reel has many things my old one had, however I have made it now almost 70% my yet to be finished film “Automatic Doors.”
“Automatic Doors” is not the real name, it was only a holder name until I could come up with something catchier. Currently I am liking “Once and Never Again”. My film is about an elevator experience gone terribly wrong. A young woman neglects to hold the door for an older woman, that older woman then seeks to teach the young woman a lesson.
That said enjoy some fresh rough animation from my film.